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πίστεις (pisteis)

πίστεις is an Ancient Greek form of πίστις, meaning “trust, faith, pledge”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 219 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82.6: … ὰ τῶν κειμένων νόμων ὠφελίας αἱ τοιαῦται ξύνοδοι, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοὺς καθεστῶτας πλεονεξίᾳ. καὶ τὰς ἐς σφᾶς αὐτοὺς πίστεις οὐ τῷ θείῳ νόμῳ μᾶλλον ἐκρατύνοντο ἢ τῷ κοινῇ τι παρανομῆσαι.

Isocrates, Against Callimachus 46: ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὰς πὶστεις ἀλλήλοις ἔδομεν εἰς ταὐτὸν συνελθόντες, οὕτω καλῶς καὶ κοινῶς πολιτευόμεθα, ὤσπερ οὐδεμιᾶς ἡμῖν συμφορᾶς γεγε …

All forms of πίστις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.